moon and phase

Oh, and I don't have any Big News after all. Other than the weekend, which was lovely, last week belongs on the cosmic burn pile.

At long last, I managed to snag a Tonner Mei Li (discontinued sculpt) for a reasonable price! I love her, fishface and all:

Nell gets YET ANOTHER new dress, this one from Ajumapama:

Blaze (a custom Sasha by Kelly Wenarsky) and Peter (a Gregor waif rescued from eBay) in new fall clothes. Isn't the sweater a hoot? It's knitted from one of Susanna Lewis's faboo patterns, and I had far too much fun with it.

Blaze is surprisingly tough to photograph--I got a full-face shot of her that made her look like a demented toad, and gave me several moments' pause about the whole concept of custom Sashas. But in person she's adorable! I don't know why the camera doesn't take to her . . .

Hee! The official Sasha descriptions are so matter-of-fact: your Mom's would be "Sasha White Dress." No kidding. None of your fancy name stuff for these dolls. ^_^

I reeeeeeeeeeally want to get one of the very limited-production 1960s Sashas sometime--they're amazing dolls. But they cost BJD money, sometimes even secondary-market Bermann money for the most beautiful & rare ones, and until my resin lust tapers off, that's where the spare cash is going. *sigh* Too many dolls, too many dolls.

I thought I remembered them being a bit dry in naming conventions. But yeah, I know how it is about too many dolls. I used to do porcelain, and had a few entries in the competitions held in Charleston before I got married. My closets are full of old dolls that I've loved.

I went way overboard in getting rid of childhood dolls (NOT Sashas!) after my dad died and Mom moved off the farm--I still regret sending some of them to the thrift store in my home town. Not that I have room for them. *sigh*

Hey, I've been having trouble sending emails: did you get mine about those two Gene outfits, before AWA? If not, PM me, 'k?

Aren't Sashas wonderful?? I have a ton of clothes for mine, and I need to play with them a lot more. *feeling determined*

You know, I really don't object to the old straight-arm Tonner body that much! I don't think I'd like having *every* doll on an SA body, but it does look nice in photographs of sleeveless tops. So Mei Li is probably keeping hers for at least the time being.

I like Sashas almost as much as I like Natterers. But then that might only be because I wound up getting a Nat instead of a Sasha. Both of them have that wonderful simple but so full of character and quality look to them. Even though I'm not a big doll dresser my Nat, Jabez, has all sorts of stuff to change into, including a fuzzy white coat for the days I'm brave enough to haul her outside.

:D SA bodies have their plus points. I've found them a lot easier to dress while half asleep.

Nell only gets prettier the longer she's here! ;-) She was beautiful with the default faceup, but this one suits my taste sooooo much better--I still feel a little lingering guilt over taking off the limited faceup, but on the other hand she isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future.

EEEEEEEEE it has been INSANE around here--more in terms of the internal weather than anything else, though there's been some weird stuff going down, too. *sigh* Whatcha up to???? Did you repaint Fio?? SEND PICTURES!!

Every now and then Lyon's true calculating Houndish nature shows up in pictures--he's fully aware that he's gorgeous, and isn't above manipulating the vulnerable humans around him. Notice that Atsumori didn't get to try on the new shirt first . . .

Now that I'm figuring out what Nell needs in wigs and clothes (=darkish Big Hair and frilly stuff), she's only getting prettier! And are your Zouks lovely for her, or what?

What will be, will be...........

FYI I am working up a muslin out of muslin for our project. It is clicking very nicely. Found something in my stash that will match that pink washed dupioni quite nicely. I think I will use it as a guinea pig to work out the kinks on the eyelets (I ordered some from Fletcher's site).

Back to work, finish up the machine part of the muslin, then to the ironing board, and then back to the pirate stuff and Ellowynne's stuff before I can go back to playing with our project.

Re: What will be, will be...........

Don't let me forget--sometime I want to show you my stash of Susanna Lewis sweater patterns for Sasha. I have a bunch of them, and with some extra length on the sleeves and body, they work perfectly for BJDs.